Preparation: 10 min - Cooking: 20 min The whole of last week, it was health food- gooseberry chutney, barley spinach khichdi, plantain stem soup etc. Let us give health food a break. Today it is one of the most popular snack - French fries also called finger chips is a very popular snack or...

Here is my participation to the contest "Breakfast of the World challenge" on Very Good Recipes. I've decided to make a twist to a french classic breakfast recipe : The french crepes. After the recent success of a grapefruit cake, I wanted to keep that...

For this month's Baking Partner's challenge Swathi has given two recipes using choux pastry- one is the chocolate eclairs and the other is French Laundry's Gourgeres. Chocolate eclairs is the sweet version whereas the gourgeres are the savory version. You...

French Macaroon needs more perfection so it is considered as a very challenging recipe in baking world. Last year I tried this French Macaron recipe for Baking Partners Challenge, my first try was miserable failure. I had several reasons for the failure...

French toast is a breakfast treat and most kitchens have the basic ingredients for this recipe. You can use all kinds of breads from white, wheat, sourdough and rye. Whatever you have on hand will work as well as bread that is a little stale. Great for...

Corn Flakes crusted French toast sticks make for the perfect, quick and easy breakfast for everyone in the family! Happy Sunday! Notice anything different? Damn Delicious has FINALLY gotten a makeover! It was way overdue and as much of a headache it’s been...

A Home-made flan like in french bakery shops. A touch of vanilla, it's a really fresh dessert. That's the first flan I have ever made, and I really think it was perfect... not too heavy, not too much flour, great colour and shape... this recipe convinced...

I had slices of old bread just begging to be used. Also those fresh farm eggs. What better excuse to make French Toast. I usually use a recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens, but decided to try this recipe from my 1963 Good Housekeeping Cookbook . What...

I love, love, love bread. It is clearly one of the greatest cooking achievements ever made. I've been intrigued since I was a little girl - in fact, making bread is one of my first cooking memories. When I happened upon a recipe, by Jocatlin, at allrecipes.com...

There's quite some time since my last baked macarons, in fact macarons are not my liking as they are overly sweet. High sugar adrenaline made me too sick sometimes. Even so, most of my friends are macaron fans (super duper). They like to eat them as part...

I should have posted these a long time ago. I made those mint-violet macarons quite a few weeks ago, but I haven't had the time to post them. I must be a macaron-sochist! Whenever I decide to make macarons, I always seem to make them after 8h00 pm or when...

The Old Quince Tree, A French Cheese Platter and Elizabethan Quince Cheese ~ Membrillo Ruby red and perfumed, she sat provocatively on the table, and without a quiver of embarrassment she glowed and embraced the French cheeses that shared the same platter...

Pâte sucrée is a French term for a rich, sweetened short pastry used for desserts such as pies, tarts and filled cookies. The shell is blind baked until entirely cooked with fresh fruit and pastry cream. After reading my World Kitchen France cook book,...

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living. ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist I returned home from my foot massage session to this. Fluffy. Mashed potatoes. Pancakes. Don't these...

Egg masala toast is a brilliant breakfast or snack recipe; it is almost similar to the french toasts, but a savoury version of it. Here bread is dipped in a masala egg mixture and toasted over a tawa. There are many ways of making this toast and the following...

There are words that describe life; though in a word; bread. For it comes in many forms. There is bread that identifies each. It is a staple that brings together the masses. Bread defines a culture and is the gold that is harvested from the land. Ingredients:...

Quiche lorraine is the classic quiche from the Lorraine region of eastern France. It makes a nice and easy picnic/party dish and goes well with a salad. The recipe is extremely easy to make, and yet the most delicious savory pastries that I ever tasted...

With the days getting cooler and the nights are actually cold now, a glass of a rich red wine and a hot cheesy soup just seem perfect for dinner! I make this soup every fall and sometimes in late winter. The rich beef stock and sweet onions and creamy cheese...

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” – James Beard All the Masterchef Australia enthusiasts would be familiar with the episode when, a few weeks back, Samira, one of the...

My favorite French bread recipe by far is the one by Cook's Illustrated. The flavor and texture are incomparable. But, it requires more than a full 24 hours of prep work and rising and baking time. The results are totally worth the effort and the wait,...